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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-04-14 13:09:35 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-04-14 17:20:22 +0100
commit84f82ddcbb4ac4ed04c8675e85155329f23184f0 (patch)
treedb6967ddbd90a7c9862ce25449d0556b36985c48 /docs
parentbf3f857342b27e04871b22e3015fef5068a85723 (diff)
Deprecate KVM support for AArch32
The Linux kernel has dropped support for allowing 32-bit Arm systems to host KVM guests (kernel commit 541ad0150ca4aa663a2, which just landed upstream in the 5.7 merge window). Mark QEMU's support for this configuration as deprecated, so that we can delete that support code in 5.2. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
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@@ -336,6 +336,14 @@ The ``compat`` property used to set backwards compatibility modes for
the processor has been deprecated. The ``max-cpu-compat`` property of
the ``pseries`` machine type should be used instead.
+KVM guest support on 32-bit Arm hosts (since 5.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The Linux kernel has dropped support for allowing 32-bit Arm systems
+to host KVM guests as of the 5.7 kernel. Accordingly, QEMU is deprecating
+its support for this configuration and will remove it in a future version.
+Running 32-bit guests on a 64-bit Arm host remains supported.
+
System emulator devices
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